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SEEKING A WAY FORWARD ... since it has happened here

Saturday, November 12, 2016

This is sick

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Eric Lichtblau, who has been a warrior at the NYT exposing government overreach and malfeasance, has plunged down the rabbit hole of false ...

Saturday scenes and scenery: north coast interlude

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Hanging in the country with five other tough, feminist women of a certain age who need a break this week. Even for a break, there is no su...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Friday cat blogging

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I was just walking down her street, with camera, when she spotted me. Her humans should wash her window.

A poet for my generation passes

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... I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean I love the country but I can't stand the scene And I'm neither left or right I...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Residue

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Not ready yet to say anything very coherent about either the election or our future. So this will consist of tidbits I've run across si...
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Still here in the 'hood

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The evening after the night before, the weekly vigil demanding that San Francisco D.A. George Gascon charge the polices officers who murdere...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2016

They want a future

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This, which represents what the election result would have been if only 18-25 year olds had voted, has been all over the internet. But just ...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Fear in the 'hood

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I went by the taqueria tonight as the California polls were closing and the East Coast election results were already coming in. The terror ...
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Hillary Clinton as "good candidate"

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If Hillary Clinton is elected today, as I expect she will be, this will have come about perhaps more than we recognize because she has been...
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Monday, November 07, 2016

Election oddments: part 5 -- a cog wants out of the death machine

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Four years ago on the eve of the election, I was working to pass an initiative that would end California's death penalty and replace it...

Election oddments, part 4 -- organizing for a better Georgia

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Rebecca Traister passes along this woman's inspirational project. It won't happen this time, but Stacey Abrams, state house Minori...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

Election oddments, part 3 -- gotta feed the GOTV troops

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In election seasons, I try to donate small sums (I do mean small) to candidates in races that might matter, very early on. That means I'...

Election oddments, part 2 -- North Carolina voices

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Jamelle Bouie has been talking with voters of color in that contested battleground: “I think people are nervous about the direction we’re ...
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Election oddments: part 1 -- landslide counties

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This graphic was part of a larger New York Times story about how people with different political leanings have sorted themselves into sepa...
Saturday, November 05, 2016

No escape from the election

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While running trails, I don't expect to encounter election signs, even in a year like this. However galumphing along the town of Pacif...
Friday, November 04, 2016

Gentrification city

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Company Town Trailer from Snitow-Kaufman Productions on Vimeo . If you aren't from San Francisco and you want to know what all those ...
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Friday cat blogging

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Morty might appear to be hunting, but actually he's displaying himself over the kitchen sink.
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Just for fun ...

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there's this: Scholastic , which seems to be contemporary equivalent of my grammar school My Weekly Reader , an educational youth magaz...

This initiative reporting rings too true

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As a consequence of knowing I don't have more all out, 24/7, campaigns in me, this is the first election since 1994 that I haven't b...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Getting out the Latino vote

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If only Latinos voted in proportion to their (registered, citizen) numbers, this country would be a different, perhaps better, place. But, m...
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I'm a progressive political activist who runs trails and climbs mountains whenever any are available. I've had the privilege to work for justice in Central America (Nicaragua and El Salvador), in South Africa, in the fields of California with the United Farmworkers Union, and in the cities and schools of my own country. I'm a Christian of the Episcopalian flavor; we think and argue a lot. For work, I've done a bit of it all: run an old fashioned switch-board; remodeled buildings and poured concrete; edited and published periodicals, reports and books; and organized for electoral campaigns. Will work for justice.
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